Life is getting more and more hectic, we all know that, faster answers, more questions, more stress. The amount of evidence that stress erodes human health is enormous and no one is in any doubt about it anymore. How to deal with so much pressure? Demands, demands, demands … of children, bosses, colleagues, employees, wife, husband, in short.
What if you could feel 30 percent more physical energy, 50% more emotional disposition, 70% more mental focus and twice the sense in your life when you wake up in the morning and throughout the day? If you didn’t believe this was impossible, what would you do? In this short article I will show you what is possible and how to do it.
The organism not only recovers, it gets stronger.
Let’s start by understanding two quick concepts to optimize our understanding of the subject. First that the word stress (or Stress ) was first used in medicine in 1936, by Hans Selye, a doctor in Prague. He studied and described in detail that the organism presented the same set of reactions in the face of a wide variety of disturbing situations: excessive heat, light for long hours, cold, social isolation, etc.
He then brought the term stress from materials engineering, which there meant the set of forces that acted against the resistance of the material. In the human being it means all the factors that disturb him, this is the stress that causes the weakening of immunity, emotional imbalance, social withdrawal, inflammation, etc.
The second concept is the phenomenon of overcompensation. The saying “what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger” is correct as long as we have time to recover and become stronger. Everyone now recognizes that weight lifting makes muscles grow. The weight is an intense stressor and the muscle is literally taken to the point of almost tearing, then it rests for a few days and it not only recovers, it gets stronger, this is overcompensation. Too little stressor is also harmful to the development of our potential, imagine for example the musculature of an arm that has been in the cast for a long time, or the spoiled behavior of the overprotected teenager who has not learned to deal with frustration.
The organism not only recovers, it becomes stronger after an intense stressor and an adequate period of rest and nutrition, together these two I call the renewal period. This is how stress is controlled, offering the body renewal periods. Even during an intense game, the best athletes find a period of 15 seconds for the body to renew itself. All of this applies to both our physical and emotional, cognitive and spiritual organisms. The four dimensions need different rest and nutrition, remember that micronutrients are important for our entire organism, especially our emotions and cognition.
Our physical body needs stress in the form of exercise and renewal in the form of rest and food, as every athlete knows well. Beware of fastfood that deceives the body without giving proper nutrition, study what your body needs. The fact is that sport is fun, playful. If you want to have maximum energy in your life, choosing a sport and including it in your daily life is an excellent idea.
Our emotional organism, likewise, needs challenges and renewal. If you deal with the public, as in a health care profession, etc., you already have a huge burden on your emotional organism, needing rest and nutrition. Meditation is an excellent resting place for emotions and connection with loved ones is an excellent food. Beware of the fastfood in canned films, they are deceiving by distracting but do not give the true food for emotions, books are generally much more efficient as rest and emotional food. A very important moment is the arrival at your home, the presence with your children and friends, dancing and other arts, moments of relaxation and relaxation also contribute a lot.
Our cognitive organism also needs challenge and renewal. To renew your cognition, sleeping well is essential, but it is not enough, we also need to learn to rest consciously. Meditation and contemplation of nature (inside or outside) are the basis of mental renewal. Learn to meditate for 5 to 10 minutes two or three times a day. Learn how to do 15-second refocus repetitions (around three breaths) several times a day.
Our cognitive organism also needs challenge and renewal.
Start by determining renewal periods in each of these dimensions, avoiding gray areas. These zones are when you’re kind of working and kind of resting or distracting yourself. The power is in clearly separating moments that you are exposing yourself to stress and moments that you are renewing.
